No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status | Zendy

Benedict C. Jones | Zendy; Amanda Hahn | Zendy; Claire I. Fisher | Zendy; Hongyi Wang | Zendy; Michal Kandrik | Zendy; Chengyang Han | Zendy; Vanessa Fasolt | Zendy; Danielle Morrison | Zendy; Anthony J. Lee | Zendy; Iris J. Holzleitner | Zendy; Kieran J. O’Shea | Zendy; S. Craig Roberts | Zendy; Anthony C. Little | Zendy; Lisa M. DeBruine | Zendy

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No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status

Author(s) -

Benedict C. Jones,

Amanda Hahn,

Claire I. Fisher,

Hongyi Wang,

Michal Kandrik,

Chengyang Han,

Vanessa Fasolt,

Danielle Morrison,

Anthony J. Lee,

Iris J. Holzleitner,

Kieran J. O’Shea,

S. Craig Roberts,

Anthony C. Little,

Lisa M. DeBruine

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

psychological science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.641

H-Index - 260

eISSN - 1467-9280

pISSN - 0956-7976

DOI - 10.1177/0956797618760197

Subject(s) - masculinity , attractiveness , psychology , hormone , developmental psychology , human females , physical attractiveness , social psychology , facial attractiveness , medicine , endocrinology , psychoanalysis

Although widely cited as strong evidence that sexual selection has shaped human facial-attractiveness judgments, findings suggesting that women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces are related to women's hormonal status are equivocal and controversial. Consequently, we conducted the largest-ever longitudinal study of the hormonal correlates of women's preferences for facial masculinity ( N = 584). Analyses showed no compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity were related to changes in women's salivary steroid hormone levels. Furthermore, both within-subjects and between-subjects comparisons showed no evidence that oral contraceptive use decreased masculinity preferences. However, women generally preferred masculinized over feminized versions of men's faces, particularly when assessing men's attractiveness for short-term, rather than long-term, relationships. Our results do not support the hypothesized link between women's preferences for facial masculinity and their hormonal status.

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